Slater v. United Traction Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, United Traction Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 4th day of September, 1915, vacating and setting aside a verdict of a jury herein and the judgment entered thereon.
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, P. J.:
Upon the examination of the persons called as jurors in this case each juror was asked if he had any prejudice against a negligence action. Juror Haswell replied that he had not. He was accepted as a juror, and a verdict was returned March ninth in favor of the defendant. On March eleventh he was called in another case in the same court, and upon a like examination stated that he was prejudiced against such an action, and was excused from service. Upon plaintiff’s motion the verdict was set aside by the presiding judge upon the ground *405that the juror had by a false answer been…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dalrymple v. . WilliamsNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
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